“(1605) A treatise on philosophy by Francis Bacon. Considered an excellent example of Renaissance thought, it extols the pursuit of learning and critically surveys the existing state of knowledge. Bacon later wrote a greatly expanded version, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientarium (1623), to form the first part of his projected Instauratio Magna.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
You might be able to use, if you think your students should know this word (I think mine should, which is why I wrote it) this context clues worksheet on the verb spurn.
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“A public declaration of advocated opinion, intent, viewpoint, etc., especially a political exhortation or proclamation of aesthetic principles; avowal; credo. Plural: manifestos, manifestoes.
‘How often he had seen her, as they sat together in the evening lamplight, with a pad of it propped on her knee as she drafted a letter to her Congressman, or flaming manifesto for one or another of the ecological causes into which she threw herself, and sometimes him.’” Peter De Vries, Madder Music
Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Napoleon Bonaparte if you need something to introduce the little Corsican quickly.
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“Advertising is legalized lying.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992
This week’s Text is a quick one, after a week of testing. Here are two context clues worksheets on the nouns prologue and epilogue.
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“A completely new word combining parts of two or more words. The word thus created expresses a combination of the meanings of its parts, as in the now common word brunch, created by combining the ‘br’ of breakfast with the ‘unch’ of lunch. Lewis Carroll introduced portmanteau words in Through the Looking Glass; he says slithy means lithe and slimy, mimsy means flimsy and miserable, etc. Carroll called the them portmanteau words because in them two meanings were ‘packed up’ in one bag, as it were. Modern writers have made liberal use of such words, notably James Joyce in his Finnegan’s Wake.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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It seems to me that if you’re teaching any sort of global studies or world history course that includes the twentieth century in its chronology, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on war crimes will be of some use to you.
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“The site for the last great battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil before the day of judgement (Revelations 16:16). The Hebrew word supposedly refers to Megiddo, which, in the history of Israel, was the scene of many great battles. The word has come to mean any great final struggle or conflict and is comparable to Ragnarok in Norse mythology.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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Here is a context clues worksheet that focuses on two words, to wit, the nouns criterion (singular) and criteria (plural). I developed this earlier this year for a unit on argumentation I started. I have another one on datum and data that I’ll pass along shortly.
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